RFE Received 01/23/14! Need Advice Please!

[mscma 8]

Hello everyone. I'm pretty new here. I started looking up on the internet to get some insights and came across this board looking for some advice.

I'm the applicant, came to US on F-1 Visa (2006), Met my now wife in 2007, Got married Feb 14th 2012, and I received my Conditional Card on 31st July 2012.

July 2014 I sent my ROC packet and my Receipt date on NOA is: 07/23/2014

Bio-metrics were done 08/22/2014.

Just today I received the Yellow letter from USCIS which was dated Jan 20, 2014. To be honest, I was kind of expecting this since there was a lot happening with moving to another place at the time and I didn't really submit enough. (clearly my fault)

So the letter says I submitted the following:

• 2012 and 2013 joint tax transcripts.
• one year joint rental agreement beginning Jan 1, 2014, covering a short span of your marriage. (I'm pretty sure I sent the lease agreement from years 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. I could be wrong but We have been living there since 2011).
• two affidavits.
• I sent them car insurance with both our names on it but they didn't mention it.

You did not submit enough documentation represent a joint and bona fide relationship. The evidence you provided covers a short period of your marriage and does not show in sufficient detail that you and your spouse have lived together and shared responsibility of financial resources and obligations for a span of your marriage. More evidence is needed to establish that you and your spouse have continuously shared a life together from the start of your relationship to the present date.

Good Faith Marriage

The evidence should cover the entire period of your marriage and may include, but not limited to, one or more of the following:

1. Children as a result of your marriage:
2. Evidence that you and your spouse have resided together and shared responsibility for a common residence:
3. Financial resource:
4. Estate, Health and financial planning arrangements:
5. Affidavits:

1) Children; My wife has 2 kids from previous marriage; we all live together and we both are raising them. (We can get paperwork from doctors and from their school stating my name as Emergency Contact.)

2) Common Residence; We have been living at the same address since 2011 till July 2014. We moved after sending i-751. At the apartments, they wouldn't add her name because her credit is too low. (We will send again the lease agreement from 2011, 12, 13 and 14.)

3) Financial Resources: We had a Joint account till 2013. We had problems with bank with some charges from iTunes showing up repeatedly for 3 months, so We just closed it. We went to other bank I already had the account with but they wouldn't add her because she had supposedly owed them from previous marriage. So we just left it at that. Didn't see any use at that time because anything we do, we do it together so she doesn't really go shop or anything by herself. So we have nothing to show for this.

I recently applied for a credit card (late 2014) and she is Authorized User on that card. Not sure if that would do anything.

4) Estate, Health and financial planning arrangement; We don't have any of that.

5) Affidavits; We have already submitted 2 Affidavits, should We submit more?

We can also send our Driver's Licence with same address and some pictures we have ( About 10 or 15 - Don't have a lot since I don't really do a lot of pictures)

We really don't have any problem going to interview if it were to happen, We just don't know what else to present them because we can't think of anything else we have.

Please Help us get through this RFE with any advice you have for us.

Thank you.

Edited January 24, 2015 by mscma

[TBoneTX 46,208]

4. Create some wills, medical powers of attorney, and associated documents (one for each of you, naming the other). These make excellent and strong evidence. Furthermore, they're even more valuable to have in "life." Don't delay.

[mscma 8]

4. Create some wills, medical powers of attorney, and associated documents (one for each of you, naming the other). These make excellent and strong evidence. Furthermore, they're even more valuable to have in "life." Don't delay.

Thank you, didn't know I can still do that. Wouldn't it be too late though to get something done as it would seem that we're doing it just for the sake of USCIS?

[KayDeeCee 4,896]

Yes, send your joint lease info from living together the last few years. If you have mail addressed to you both at your joint address, then send copies of those. If you don't have jointly addressed mail, then send separately addressed mail from things like insurance, bills, banks, government agencies, etc. for the entire length of time you lived together. That will show you residing at the same address.

Yes, send the documentation showing you are listed as the emergency contact for the children.

Yes, send the credit card account that shows your spouse listed as an authorized user. Show documentation of the joint bank account you had that spans the entire length of time you had it.

If you have filed, or will soon file your 2014 taxes, then send a copy of that return too.

Yes, send copies of your licenses that show the same address on them. And yes, you can send in photos of you together with friends and family, and perhaps from your wedding. If you have taken any trips together, then provide proof of traveling together for family vacations, and things of that nature. Anything you can think of that shows you co-mingle your finances and lives.